Hoover phobia @ 17 mths...

[kiwisbird]

Yes before you all yell ALL babies have Hoover phobia at this age I took advice from MN'ers and bought DD little Toy Dyson today - she screamed even louder at it than the real one - I dare not even put the batteries in it...
I know I should have got the hoover out more often in her little life to condition her, but who can be arsed when MN is here during nap times?
Will she grow out of it soon?
Had vision of her with toy hoover (that can with batteries) actually suck up little bits of stuff) sorting out the grimy area under her highchair.
I feel that she should not grow up with my aversion to hoovering, or is it geneticperhaps?
In which case I'll just take the hoover back and get her an iron instead... that'll teach her not nap when its offered

My DD is 2, and absolutely terrified of the hoover.....so we started calling it the 'noo-noo' (yup, teletubbies!) and she won't call it anything other than "NAUGHTY noo-noo!". I have a bit of a hoover aversion....it doesn't scare me, just doesn't get used all that much . She sits on the couch, 'quaking' and clutching latest fave cuddly toy as hard as she can until the whole ordeal is over . I'm interested in the replies you get! DD not liking the hoover wouldn't bother me, but it's horrible to see her so traumatised by a (daily?! ) ritual like this.

daily
oh shite LOL

Ds1 is nearly 4 and still hates the hoover. Things have improved though. To start with he would scream hysterically if I so much as took it out of the cupboard. He was about 6 months old at the time and I made the mistake of following advice and holding him while I hoovered. The screaming was a thousand times worse.

I eventually had to do the hoovering when dh got home so that he could take ds1 into another room. As ds1 got older he was okay as long as I gave him plenty of warning and allowed him to leave the room first and shut the door. He's now 3yrs 9mths and will sometimes stay in the same room but only if his feet are away from the floor.

It's taken a long time but things really are getting better.

Do people still have "hooverphobia" as teenagers or adults? If they do they keep it very quiet! I think that the vast majority of kids grow out of it eventually. In the meantime enjoy having an excuse not to use it too often!

Levanna, that sounds exactly like the sluglet. She's always such a brave girl, sitting as far away as possible with teddy in a death grip saying "Noo noo do the noise!"

I'll hoover if she's in the bath because it's just too much fun splashing and if she got scared she'd just have to get out of the bath and where's the fun in that?

I just use it as an excuse to be a housework slut.

Now I'm really confused. We bought a new Dyson when ds was little, and he was entranced by it, took all the attachments off it, followed it round when my cleaning lady used it (Well, I don't want to, do I?), and even used to take the instruction booklet into his cot with him to 'read' every night.

My ds is nearly 16mths and is very frightened of the vacuum. He will start crying if we open the cupboard where it is kept, and won't stop until you shut the door.
He does have a toy one though, which he loves but we haven't bothered to put the batteries in it.
I have tried everything, i've left it out for him to play with but he just crys at it.
I now try to do it either when he's asleep or when there is another adult here to hold and distract him.